Minimum pension: SGF, Labour Minister, Salaries and Wages Commission for NUP NEC meeting tomorrow

The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, the Minister of Labour and Employment Dr. Chris Ngige, and the Executive Chairman, National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission (NSIWC), Ekpo Nta are among the top government officials expected to parley with the pensioners at the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the Nigeria Union of Pensioners (NUP) in Abuja tomorrow.

Their attendance is imperative in view of the long delay in the implementation of minimum pension and its attendant consequential adjustment as a result of the increase in the national minimum wage last year.

With a theme: ‘Pensioners welfare in post covid-19 era’, the meeting will commence at 10am on Wednesday morning at Top Rank, Jabi, Abuja, where the elderly people would be expecting the SGF to address them on the delay in the implementation of a new minimum pension, since President Muhammadu Buhari signed the new nation minimum wage into law in April last year.

The Assistant Secretary, Organizing and Media, NUP, Comrade Bunmi Ogunkolade, said the report on the implementation has been on the table of the SGF, adding, “the elderly people, men and women who have spent their strength to serve this country in their youth will like to know from the SGF, why is the report being delayed till now.”

According to him, the union has held several meetings with the Chairman, National Salaries, Incomes and Wages Commission, and communicated with him on the issue, before the report was finally sent to the SGF for final approval.

He pointed out that the Technical Committee earlier set up to look into the issue had done a good job and presented its report to the NSIWC chairman who in turn, submitted the report to the SGF.

Also expected at the meeting are the Ministry of Finance, the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate (PTAD), National Pension Commission (PenCom) and the Registrar of trade union.

 

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